Risk Factors
How Healthy is Your Heart?
Download and take the Risk Factor Quiz to find out.Several factors increase your risk of heart disease. The more risk factors you have, the greater your chance is for developing heart disease. There are risk factors that are not controllable, but there are also factors that you can modify and treat to reduce your risk of heart disease.
Controllable Risk Factors
- Cigarette smoking
- High blood pressure
- Physical inactivity
- High cholesterol
- Being overweight
- Diabetes
- Loss of estrogen due to menopause
Uncontrollable Risk Factors
- Age
- Family history
- Gender